Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar and Writing: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and writing. It focuses on reviewing parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, parallel structure, and properly formating writing assignments using MLA guidelines. The essential questions focus...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a Grammar and Writing unit. It focuses on a review of dependent and independent clauses, writing concise sentences, avoiding passive voice, formatting writing assignments, documenting sources using MLA...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Wrong With the Coordinates at the North Pole?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete a self-guided exercise in worksheet format combined with Google Earth that helps them explore practical and observable differences between different projection and coordinate systems. The activity improves their skills...
Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Progressive Tense

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive online practice from Colby College is available for the present progressive tense. Regular, irregular, and stem-changing participles are included in this exercise. Utilize this self-grading online worksheet to help improve...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Identify Important Info When I Read [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Links to self-assessment activities for content area fluency activities are found on this resource. Students will read, time themselves, and record facts. Students will improve their reading rates and levels of comprehension.
Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Scanning for Specifics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Self-scoring interactive lesson for improving skills in scanning informational texts and charts for keywords and specific details.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: About Marcus Garvey and the Black Star Line

For Students 9th - 10th
This page contains a mix of different information about Marcus Garvey and a photograph exhibit relating to his steamship company, the Black Star Line.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Professional Development Tutorial: Increasing Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial is a sample lesson from a Scholastic Red session on vocabulary development.
Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Garvey, Marcus

For Students 9th - 10th
In this encyclopedia entry you can read about Marcus Garvey, newspaper entrepreneur and advocate of black pride and separatism.
Website
US Department of Agriculture

Choose My Plate: Why Is Physical Activity Important?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes a simple list of reasons why getting exercise is important for your physical and emotional well-being. Also, learn definitions and examples of aerobic activities, resistance activities, and stretching activities.
Article
Goshen College

Motivating Non Drawing Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Marvin Bartel writes this article in hopes of helping you find a way to reach the students who insist "I can't draw."
Article
Goshen College

Motivating Non Drawing Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Marvin Bartel writes this article in hopes of helping you find a way to reach the students who insist "I can't draw."
Activity
Other

Spaleon: The Conjugation Trainer

For Students 9th - 10th
The Conjugation Trainer helps a student practice drilling different Spanish verb groups and verb forms. The focus is the present tense, preterit, imperfect, and present subjunctive forms of basic and irregular verbs.
Website
University of Michigan

Sir Peabody's Tatler & Spectator Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This selection of quotes is taken from the leading newspapers of the English Restoration, The Tatler and The Spectator, in which such authors as Joseph Addison contributed. A favorite subject was love and marriage.
Activity
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center

Advice for Parents of Children With Fas

For Students 9th - 10th
This website offers advice for parents of children with fetal alcohol syndrome and is organized into the following sections: "Self-Forgiveness," "FAS Esteem," "IEP Participation," and "Talking to Your Children About FAS/E." Here, parents...
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Curated OER

Advice for Parents of Children With Fas

For Students 9th - 10th
This website offers advice for parents of children with fetal alcohol syndrome and is organized into the following sections: "Self-Forgiveness," "FAS Esteem," "IEP Participation," and "Talking to Your Children About FAS/E." Here, parents...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Florence Nightingale

For Students 9th - 10th
Miss Florence Nightingale did remarkable work during the Crimean War for the relief of sick and wounded British soldiers. To her self-sacrificing labors are also due many improvements in hospital management, sanitation, and the training...